L is for liberty (freedom)
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E for equality (fairness, equal opportunity) |
Quotes: “That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.” ”That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Summary: Liberty is freedom from external of foreign rule. |
Quotes: “No person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall in consequence of any law or regulation therein be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due.” “The Constitution which guarantees that the citizen of each State shall be entitled to all privileged and immunities of citizens in the several States?”
Summary: Equality is the state or quality of being equal. |
U for union (joining the states into one U.S. government) |
G for government (the
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“No person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall in consequence of any law or regulation therein be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due.” “I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." “With malice toward none; with charity toward all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.”
Summary: The Union was the North, and they did not kike slavery. |
“It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union; that Resolves and Ordinances to that effect are legally void; and that acts of violence, within any State or States, against the authority of the United States, are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances…” “Again, if the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it? One party to a contract may violate it-break it, so to speak; but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it?”
Summary: The form or system of rule by which a state, community, etc., is governed. |
First INAUGURAL Address |
The Emancipation Proclamation |
Lincoln's Address was on March 4th, 1861, as a part of the oath of office for his first term of the 16th president of the U.S. The Speech was aimed for the people from the South.
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Issued on January 1st, 1863 as a war measure during the Civil War it was directed to all the areas of the rebellion and all segments of the Executive branch of the United States.
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The Gettysburg Address
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Second Inaugural Address |
One of the best known speeches after the battle at Gettysburg on the battlefield after the bloody battle on November 19, 1863.
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Issued on March 4, 1865, At a time when victory over the secessionists in the American Civil War was within days and slavery was near the end.
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